Talk:Lashkargah District

Why exactly was this page created? We already have a page for Lashkar Gah district of Helmand, Afghanistan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkar_Gah (Ketabtoon (talk) 04:22, 25 July 2009 (UTC))

I put this article for deletion at first, but than I reverted my request. because in the above page, it says Lashkar Gah city, not district. Still, I want to clarify something before putting it for delation.

In Afghanistan cities like Herat City, Kabul City, Jalalbad City, Kandahar City, Kunduz City are both districts and cities. The difference between Kunduz District and another district in Kunduz is that it is a business center of the province (at national level), thus it is called a city as well. However, as you can see, there is no city in Logar Province. The capital or center of Logar Province is Pul-i-Alam, however we never call it a city. Eventhough it is the center of the Province, but it is not busy enough or it is not populated enough, or it is not a business districts so we do not call it Pul-i-Alam city.

There for, some of these major cities in Afghanistan like Kabul City, Herat City, Jalalabad City, Kandahar City are districts as well. The only reason why we call them cities is because at Afghan standard, they are urbanized (they are not rural districts).

Such articles are only confusing readers which makes them think that Lashkar Gah District and Lashkar Gah City are two different places, when they are not. (Ketabtoon (talk) 04:37, 25 July 2009 (UTC))

I get where you're coming from but there is a difference between the city of Lashkar Gah and the administrative district which contains that city, even if it is named after it. Indeed, this article specifically states that the district contains areas which are desert - in other words outside of the city.

You see the same thing in many other parts of the world. We have separate articles on New York City and New York State, on Marseille and the Arrondissement of Marseille, on Islamabad and Islamabad Capital Territory.

We should have consistency on whether Lashkargah is one word or two, but that's a differnt issue to whether we need both articles. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 08:29, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

In Afghanistan there is a province, one of the districts in that province is the capital of the province - if the district is a business center and urbanized, it is called a city. Than there is a center of that district.

For example there is a Kabul Province (like New York State) and there is a Kabul District (like New York City). When people say Kabul City, they are reffering to the entire district. http://www.mrrd.gov.af/nabdp/Provincial%20Profiles/Kabul%20PDP%20Provincial%20profile.pdf If you look at section B. Demography and Population, Kabul-Provincial Centre falls in the same list as the rest of the districts. (Ketabtoon (talk) 16:38, 25 July 2009 (UTC))

Population

Lashkar gah has entirely pashtun population the population data is entirely false or very old please update the true data it is entirely pashtun city and pashto is the only language which people talk i never seen any baloch in this area 203.171.108.147 (talk) 04:00, 29 June 2023 (UTC)